Method of making automobile chock blocks



Patented June '19, 1923.

UNITED STATES PATIENT OFFICE.

ROBERT L. HICE, 0F MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, AssIGNOR To FOREST PRODUCTS COM- PANY, A LIMITED PARTNERSHIP COMPOSED OF G. D. JOHNSON, J. W. HICE, AND

SAID ROBERT L. HICE.

METHOD OF MAKING AUTOMOBILE CHOCK BLOCKS.

Application filed December 1, 1922. Serial No. 604,295.

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT L. HIOE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city and county of Montgomery, State of Alabama, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Method of Making Automobile Chock Blocks, of which this is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part here- The invention relates to chock blocks.

method whereby such blocks can be manufactured at the lowest expense. These objects are largely attained in the invention to be described.

In the drawing Fig. 1 shows a block, while Fig. 2 is a view of a stick of wood to be cutinto blanks, showing the method of sawing to provide the necessary toes or steps and wastethe smallest quantity of wood in so doing.

In Fig. 1, 1 is a chock block having the usual curved portion as indicated at 2; the view not showing more than one edge of this curved portion and the upper part of block where curved; and 3 is the rear face of block, while 4 is a step or toe formed substantially with a forty-five degree slant to the base. This toe or step serves to receive nails driven through the toe into car floor or other support. The form of step is not only highly efiicie'nt but lends itself to the method of manufacture as will be seen. I am aware that steps or toes are not new and that several designs have been employed. This particular step, however, I believe to be new with me, and it is one which permits the As understood chock blocks are formed 2 breadth substantially that of the height of the block I lay it off into lengths approxi. mately equal to the length of theblock and then by making four cuts as shown, saw out a substantially lozenge shaped bit of wood,

the sawing forming two steps or toes on respective blocks. The figure illustrates the ideaperfectly the'cuts being made as shown by the arrows 5, 6, 7, 8, and the lozenge shaped waste part being shown at 9. Then, by a diagonal cut as shown by the dotted line'lO I divide the billet left between two of the lozenge cuttings into two chock block blanks, wanting only the shaping of .the curved surface to be complete. This method saves all of the wood except the small lozenge shaped portions, and, of course, such as is cut away in forming the curved face and which cannot be saved.

Having described my invention, what I claim is V The method of making chock block blanks consisting in cutting out lozenge shaped portions from a relatively long stick of wood and leaving billets having steps-at each end Witness my hand at Montgomery, Alabama, November 25, 1922.

- ROBER Enron Witnesses:

DANIEL W. TROY, Jr.,

SAMUEL W. CATTs. 

